Anagrams of retinoscope
Word retinoscope has
1305 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of retinoscope.
- porticoes
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noun,
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- cortisone
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noun,
Biochemistry. a steroid hormone of the adrenal cortex, C 21 H 28 O 5 , active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
- neoterics
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noun,
a new or modern writer, thinker, etc.
- pectinose
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noun,
arabinose.
- isentrope
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noun,
a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- potencies
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noun,
the state or quality of being potent.
- interpose
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verb (used with object),
to place between; cause to intervene:
- secretion
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noun,
(in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- reception
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noun,
the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- inspector
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noun,
a person who inspects.
- cooperite
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noun,
a mineral, sulfide and arsenide of platinum, occurring in igneous rocks in the form of steel-gray crystals.
- cooperies
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noun,
the work of a cooper.
- stenopeic
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noun,
a device, as of wood, metal, or cardboard, with a narrow horizontal slit, worn over the eyes for protection against bright sunlight.
- stonecrop
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noun,
any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- resection
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noun,
Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- prescient
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adjective,
having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight:
- entropies
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noun,
Thermodynamics.
(on a macroscopic scale) a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process. A closed system evolves toward a state of maximum entropy.
(in statistical mechanics) a measure of the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system. Symbol: S.
- optionees
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noun,
a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
- copestone
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noun,
the top stone of a building or other structure.
- prentices
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noun,
a male given name.
- Pointers
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noun,
a person or thing that points.
- porticos
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noun,
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- poetries
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noun,
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- spectro-
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- erection
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noun,
the act of erecting.
- pioneers
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noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- neoteric
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noun,
a new or modern writer, thinker, etc.
- ecotones
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noun,
the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- percents
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- Peronist
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noun,
a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- isoprene
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noun,
a colorless, volatile, water-insoluble liquid, C 5 H 8 , of the terpene class, usually obtained from rubber or from oil of turpentine by pyrolysis: used chiefly in the manufacture of synthetic rubber by polymerization.
- esoteric
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adjective,
understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite:
- Peterson
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noun,
Oscar Emmanuel, 1925–2007, Canadian jazz pianist.
- picotees
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noun,
a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.
- 11-point
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- conspire
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verb (used with object),
to plot (something wrong, evil, or illegal).
- optionee
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noun,
a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
- positron
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noun,
an elementary particle having the same mass and spin as an electron but having a positive charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron's negative charge; the antiparticle of the electron.
- potences
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noun,
potency.
- seicento
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noun,
the 17th century, with reference to the Italian art or literature of that period.
- tropines
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noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- precents
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verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- creosote
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noun,
an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- serotine
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noun,
a small Eurasian brown bat, Eptesicus serotinus.
- one-step
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noun,
a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- one-spot
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noun,
the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
- secretin
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noun,
a polypeptide hormone, produced in the small intestine, that activates the pancreas to secrete pancreatic juice.
- sorption
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noun,
the state or process of being sorbed.
- Scorpion
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noun,
any of numerous arachnids of the order Scorpionida, widely distributed in warmer parts of the world, having a long, narrow, segmented tail that terminates in a venomous sting.
- proteose
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noun,
any of a class of soluble compounds derived from proteins by the action of the gastric juices, pancreatic juices, etc.
- Pecorino
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noun,
a dry, hard Italian cheese made of ewe's milk, especially Romano.
- nitroso-
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- scienter
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noun,
a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s action, statement, etc., is wrong, deceptive, or illegal: often used as a standard of guilt:
- pointes
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noun,
the tip of the toe.
- entires
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noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- entopic
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adjective,
being or occurring in the usual place.
- entries
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noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- precent
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verb (used with object),
to lead as a precentor in singing.
- portion
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noun,
a part of any whole, either separated from or integrated with it:
- precise
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adjective,
definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed:
- respite
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noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- entero-
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- coterie
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noun,
a group of people who associate closely.
- Epstein
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noun,
Sir Jacob, 1880–1959, English sculptor, born in the U.S.
- respect
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noun,
a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in):
- present
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noun,
the present time.
- Ericson
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noun,
Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- tenrecs
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noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- entices
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verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- crepons
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noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- portico
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noun,
a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- encores
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noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- porions
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noun,
the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- potence
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noun,
potency.
- porcino
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noun,
Usually, porcini. cep.
- tierces
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noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- Crispen
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verb (used with or without object),
to make or become crisp.
- poteens
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noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- cronies
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noun,
a close friend or companion; chum.
- crinose
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adjective,
hairy.
- postern
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noun,
a back door or gate.
- porcine
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adjective,
of or relating to swine.
- enroots
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verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- Crotone
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noun,
a city in S Italy; ancient Greek colony.
- ecotone
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noun,
the transition zone between two different plant communities, as that between forest and prairie.
- potions
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noun,
a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers:
- cretins
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noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- crotons
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noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- enteric
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noun,
enterics, Bacteriology. enterobacteria.
- stereo-
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- poetics
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noun,
literary criticism treating of the nature and laws of poetry.
- Script.
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- sceptre
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noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- Peneios
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noun,
Modern Greek name of Salambria.
- noetics
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noun,
the science of the intellect or of pure thought; reasoning.
- pectose
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noun,
protopectin.
- pectins
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noun,
a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- pectens
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noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- norites
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noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- scooter
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noun,
a child's vehicle that typically has two wheels with a low footboard between them, is steered by a handlebar, and is propelled by pushing one foot against the ground while resting the other on the footboard.
- notices
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noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- Scorpio
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noun,
Astronomy. Scorpius.
- screeno
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noun,
(sometimes initial capital letter) (formerly) bingo played in a movie theater.
- sincere
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adjective,
free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest:
- pentose
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noun,
a monosaccharide containing five atoms of carbon, as xylose, C 5 H 10 O 5 , or produced from pentosans by hydrolysis.
- section
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noun,
a part that is cut off or separated.
- Serpent
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noun,
a snake.
- orpines
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noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- Orontes
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noun,
a river in W Asia, flowing N from Lebanon through NW Syria and then SW past Antioch, Turkey, to the Mediterranean. 250 miles (405 km) long.
- orients
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noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- Oriente
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noun,
a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
- openers
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noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- operons
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noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- operose
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adjective,
industrious, as a person.
- orceins
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noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- opsonic
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adjective,
of, relating to, or influenced by opsonin; capable of promoting phagocytosis.
- scepter
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noun,
a rod or wand borne in the hand as an emblem of regal or imperial power.
- specter
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noun,
a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
- Teniers
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noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- step-in
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noun,
step-ins, panties, especially bias-cut panties with wide legs worn by women in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pocosin
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noun,
a swamp or marsh in an upland coastal region.
- erosion
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noun,
the act or state of eroding; state of being eroded.
- erotics
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noun,
an erotic poem.
- riposte
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noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- Pioneer
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noun,
a person who is among those who first enter or settle a region, thus opening it for occupation and development by others.
- estrone
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 22 O 2 , produced by the ovarian follicles and found during pregnancy in urine and placental tissue.
- pincers
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noun,
a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- sterno-
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- pierces
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noun,
Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- incepts
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verb (used with object),
to take in; ingest.
- step-on
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adjective,
made to open by the operation of a pedal, as a can for kitchen garbage.
- inspect
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verb (used with object),
to look carefully at or over; view closely and critically:
- peonies
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noun,
any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Paeonia, having large, showy flowers, as the widely cultivated species P. lactiflora: the state flower of Indiana.
- picotee
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noun,
a variety of carnation, tulip, etc., having an outer margin of another color.
- Steiner
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noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- Ionesco
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noun,
Eugène [French œ-zhen;; English yoo-jeen,, yoo-jeen] /French œˈʒɛn;; English yuˈdʒin,, ˈyu dʒin/ (Show IPA), 1912–94, French playwright, born in Romania.
- sporont
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noun,
(in the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) an encysted spore developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
- isotone
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noun,
one of two or more atoms having an equal number of neutrons but different atomic numbers.
- isotope
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noun,
any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elements, in addition to over 800 radioactive isotopes, and every element has known isotopic forms. Isotopes of a single element possess almost identical properties.
- necrose
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verb (used with or without object),
to affect or be affected with necrosis.
- Spencer
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noun,
a short, close-fitting jacket, frequently trimmed with fur, worn in the 19th century by women and children.
- pereion
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noun,
(in a crustacean) the thorax.
- percent
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noun,
Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- spectre
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noun,
specter.
- Preston
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noun,
a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.
- Petrine
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adjective,
of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- pointer
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noun,
a person or thing that points.
- centres
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noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- consort
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noun,
a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch.
Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- triceps
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noun,
a muscle having three heads or points of origin, especially the muscle on the back of the arm, the action of which straightens the elbow.
- conster
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verb (used with or without object),
construe.
- copters
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noun,
helicopter.
- cistron
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noun,
a segment of DNA that encodes for the formation of a specific polypeptide chain; a structural gene.
- constr.
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- cistern
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noun,
a reservoir, tank, or container for storing or holding water or other liquid.
- recites
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verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- copiers
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noun,
a person or thing that copies; copyist.
- prostie
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noun,
a prostitute.
- trienes
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noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- citrons
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noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- centri-
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- centro-
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- repines
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verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- procto-
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- repents
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adjective,
creeping.
- coontie
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noun,
either of two arrowroots, Zamia integrifolia or Z. floridana, of Florida, having a short trunk, pinnate leaves, and cones: Z. floridana is an endangered species.
- recepts
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noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- prosect
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verb (used with object),
to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- reposit
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verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- receipt
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noun,
a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- coopers
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noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- cenotes
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noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- protein
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noun,
Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- reopens
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verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- 2,4,5-t
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noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- tropine
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noun,
a white, crystalline, hygroscopic, water-soluble, poisonous alkaloid, C 8 H 15 NO, obtained chiefly by the hydrolysis of atropine or hyoscyamine.
- pterion
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noun,
the craniometric point at the side of the sphenoidal fontanelle.
- coronet
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noun,
a small crown.
- princes
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noun,
a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- cornets
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noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- coesite
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noun,
a rare form of silicon dioxide, a denser polymorph of quartz, originally synthesized from quartz at high temperatures and pressures: later discovered in nature.
- torsion
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noun,
the act of twisting.
- re-pose
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verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- person
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noun,
a human being, whether an adult or child:
- incept
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verb (used with object),
to take in; ingest.
- Peters
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noun,
penis.
- coeno-
-
- triens
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noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- isopor
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noun,
an imaginary line on the earth's surface connecting points of equal annual change in the declination, inclination, or other components of the earth's magnetic field.
- steric
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adjective,
of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- repine
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verb (used without object),
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- pester
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verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- spiro-
-
- Sterne
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noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- necro-
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- spinor
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noun,
a quantity resembling a vector or tensor that is used in physics to represent the spins of fermions.
- spinet
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noun,
a small upright piano.
- Pierce
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noun,
Franklin, 1804–69, 14th president of the U.S. 1853–57.
- treens
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noun,
treenware.
- repose
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noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- pernio
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noun,
chilblain.
- Spener
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noun,
Philipp Jakob [fee-leep yah-kawp] /ˈfi lip ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1635–1705, German theologian: founder of Pietism.
- icono-
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- Spence
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noun,
a pantry.
- trines
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noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- repent
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adjective,
creeping.
- spinto
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adjective,
having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
- picro-
-
- irones
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noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- Pictor
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noun,
the Painter, a southern constellation between Dorado and Carina.
- insert
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noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- Citron
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noun,
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
- ptero-
-
- instep
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noun,
the arched upper surface of the human foot between the toes and the ankle.
- Roscoe
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noun,
a revolver or pistol.
- instr.
-
- pteron
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noun,
(in a classical temple) a colonnade parallel to, but apart from, the cella.
- inter.
-
- insect
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noun,
any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- inters
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verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- steno-
-
- intro.
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- reopen
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verb (used with or without object),
to open again.
- sporo-
-
- intros
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noun,
an introduction.
- C-note
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noun,
See C (def 11).
- trices
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noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- Petros
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noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- piecer
-
noun,
a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.
- pieces
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- petro-
-
- sprint
-
noun,
a short race at full speed.
- sprent
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adjective,
sprinkled.
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- Petrie
-
noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- picots
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noun,
one of a number of ornamental loops in embroidery, or along the edge of lace, ribbon, etc.
- incest
-
noun,
sexual intercourse between closely related persons.
- recept
-
noun,
an idea formed by the repetition of similar percepts, as successive percepts of the same object.
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- orpine
-
noun,
a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- recti-
-
- trones
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- cenote
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noun,
a deep natural well or sinkhole, especially in Central America, formed by the collapse of surface limestone that exposes ground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancient Mayans for sacrificial offerings.
- sector
-
noun,
Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- oscine
-
noun,
an oscine bird.
- Osetic
-
adjective, noun,
Ossetic.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- recons
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- censer
-
noun,
a container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, especially during religious services; thurible.
- censor
-
noun,
an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- sinter
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noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- octroi
-
noun,
(formerly especially in France and Italy) a local tax levied on certain articles, such as foodstuffs, on their entry into a city.
- osteo-
-
- secret
-
noun,
something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- troops
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- orison
-
noun,
a prayer.
- otiose
-
adjective,
being at leisure; idle; indolent.
- tropic
-
noun,
Geography.
either of two corresponding parallels of latitude on the terrestrial globe, one (tropic of Cancer) about 23½° N, and the other (tropic of Capricorn) about 23½° S of the equator, being the boundaries of the Torrid Zone.
the tropics, the regions lying between and near these parallels of latitude; the Torrid Zone and neighboring regions.
- option
-
noun,
the power or right of choosing.
- optics
-
noun,
(used with a singular verb) the branch of physical science that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light and with vision.
- Senior
-
noun,
a person who is older than another.
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- orcein
-
noun,
a red dye, the principal coloring matter of cudbear and orchil, obtained by oxidizing an ammoniacal solution of orcinol.
- opines
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- tropo-
-
- operon
-
noun,
a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- Orense
-
noun,
a city in N Spain, NW of Madrid.
- Orient
-
noun,
the Orient,
the countries of Asia, especially East Asia.
(formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- opener
-
noun,
a person or thing that opens.
- rectos
-
- septi-
-
- septic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or of the nature of sepsis; infected.
- secern
-
verb (used with object),
to discriminate or distinguish in thought.
- scroop
-
noun,
a scrooping sound.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- tripes
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- Scioto
-
noun,
a river in central Ohio, flowing S to the Ohio River. 237 miles (382 km) long.
- tripos
-
noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- nitro-
-
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- Peirce
-
noun,
Benjamin, 1809–80, U.S. mathematician.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- noctis
-
adjective,
(in prescriptions) of the night.
- Niepce
-
noun,
Joseph Nicéphore [zhaw-zef nee-sey-fawr] /ʒɔ zɛf ni seɪˈfɔr/ (Show IPA), 1765–1833, French inventor.
- cerise
-
adjective, noun,
moderate to deep red.
- Recent
-
noun,
Also called Holocene. (initial capital letter) Geology. the Recent Epoch or Series.
- specie
-
noun,
coined money; coin.
- Nestor
-
noun,
the oldest and wisest of the Greeks in the Trojan War and a king of Pylos.
- certes
-
adverb,
certainly; in truth.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- nocti-
-
- Sooner
-
noun,
a person who settles on government land before it is legally opened to settlers in order to gain the choice of location.
- Center
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- Nostoc
-
noun,
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
- screen
-
noun,
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
- scoto-
-
- Scoter
-
noun,
any of the large diving ducks of the genus Melanitta, inhabiting northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
- centi-
-
- centos
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- notice
-
noun,
an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning:
- centr-
-
- Centre
-
noun,
Geometry. the middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
- Noetic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the mind.
- socio-
-
- norite
-
noun,
a granular igneous rock consisting of a mix of light and dark minerals, the former being calcic plagioclase feldspars, and the latter orthorhombic pyroxenes.
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- pecten
-
noun,
Zoology, Anatomy.
a comblike part or process.
a pigmented vascular membrane with parallel folds suggesting the teeth of a comb, projecting into the vitreous humor of the eye in birds and reptiles.
- pectin
-
noun,
a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, especially in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics for its thickening and emulsifying properties and its ability to solidify to a gel.
- recite
-
verb (used with object),
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner:
- recipe
-
noun,
a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a food dish:
- Pinero
-
noun,
Sir Arthur Wing, 1855–1934, English playwright and actor.
- Cortes
-
noun,
(in Spain or Portugal) the two houses constituting the national legislative body.
- pinots
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- torose
-
adjective,
Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- copier
-
noun,
a person or thing that copies; copyist.
- cteno-
-
- copers
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- toners
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- toe-in
-
noun,
the slight forward convergence given to the front wheels of an automobile to improve steering qualities.
- Tocsin
-
noun,
a signal, especially of alarm, sounded on a bell or bells.
- copens
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- Ecorse
-
noun,
a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- pronto
-
adverb,
promptly; quickly.
- cootie
-
noun,
a louse, especially one affecting humans, as the body louse, head louse, or pubic louse.
- tip-on
-
noun,
tip1 (def 4).
- porion
-
noun,
the most lateral point in the roof of the bony external auditory meatus.
- Reston
-
noun,
James (Barrett) ("Scotty") 1909–1995, U.S. journalist, born in Scotland.
- Cooter
-
noun,
Chiefly Southern U.S. any of several large aquatic turtles of the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
- tierce
-
noun,
an old measure of capacity equivalent to one third of a pipe, or 42 wine gallons.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- entice
-
verb (used with object),
to lead on by exciting hope or desire; allure; inveigle:
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- ponies
-
noun,
a small horse of any of several breeds, usually not higher at the shoulder than 14½ hands (58 in./146 cm).
- Pontic
-
noun,
an artificial tooth in a bridge.
- cooner
-
noun,
coon dog.
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- coopts
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- Cooper
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
- enter-
-
- enroot
-
verb (used with object),
to fix by the root.
- Enrico
-
noun,
a male given name: Italian form of Henry.
- pooris
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- Enesco
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1955, Romanian violinist, composer, and conductor: teacher of Yehudi Menuhin.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- copies
-
noun,
an imitation, reproduction, or transcript of an original:
- terces
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- corpse
-
noun,
a dead body, usually of a human being.
- creeps
-
noun,
Veterinary Pathology. a disease of the bones in sheep and cattle that causes pain in walking, resulting from a deficiency of phosphorus in the diet.
- Prince
-
noun,
a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- resent
-
verb (used with object),
to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult.
- preens
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- resect
-
verb (used with object),
to do a resection on.
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- prices
-
noun,
the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- crepes
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- costo-
-
- Coster
-
noun,
costermonger.
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- COSINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side adjacent to a given angle to the hypotenuse.
the sine of the complement of a given angle or arc. Abbreviation: cos.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- corset
-
noun,
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- precis
-
noun,
a concise summary.
- crepon
-
noun,
a heavyweight crepe fabric.
- prison
-
noun,
a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- Torino
-
noun,
Turin.
- Croton
-
noun,
any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.
- croons
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- poteen
-
noun,
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
- copro-
-
- crones
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- copter
-
noun,
helicopter.
- cripes
-
interjection,
(used as a mild oath or an exclamation of astonishment.)
- CORNET
-
noun,
Music. a valved wind instrument of the trumpet family.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- prints
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- potion
-
noun,
a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers:
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- cretin
-
noun,
a person suffering from cretinism.
- Potosi
-
noun,
a city in S Bolivia: formerly a rich silver-mining center. 13,022 feet (3970 meters) above sea level.
- ponces
-
noun,
a pimp.
- encore
-
noun,
a demand, as by applause, for a repetition of a song, act, etc., or for a performance of a number or piece additional to those on a program, or for a reappearance by the performers, as at the end of a concert, recital, etc.
- Proton
-
noun,
a positively charged elementary particle that is a fundamental constituent of all atomic nuclei. It is the lightest and most stable baryon, having a charge equal in magnitude to that of the electron, a spin of ½, and a mass of 1.673 × 10− 27 kg. Symbol: P.
- escort
-
noun,
a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy:
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- tensor
-
noun,
Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- contr.
-
- pointe
-
noun,
the tip of the toe.
- erotic
-
noun,
an erotic poem.
- erects
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- conies
-
noun,
the fur of a rabbit, especially when dyed to simulate Hudson seal.
- Conroe
-
noun,
a town in E Texas.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- escent
-
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- contes
-
plural,
Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.
- tenrec
-
noun,
any of several insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, of Madagascar, having a long, pointed snout, certain species of which are spiny and tailless.
- poetic
-
noun,
poetics.
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- Piston
-
noun,
a disk or cylindrical part tightly fitting and moving within a cylinder, either to compress or move a fluid collected in the cylinder, as air or water, or to transform energy imparted by a fluid entering or expanding inside the cylinder, as compressed air, explosive gases, or steam, into a rectilinear motion usually transformed into rotary motion by means of a connecting rod.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- ripens
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- pitons
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- proto-
-
- eroto-
-
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- contos
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- points
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- roncos
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- pintos
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- Pinter
-
noun,
Harold, 1930–2008, English playwright.
- cooees
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- poison
-
noun,
a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- stoner
-
noun,
Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- oste-
-
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- prion
-
noun,
any of several petrels of the genus Pachyptila, located in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere and having serrated edges on the bill.
- Roose
-
verb (used with or without object),
praise.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- Ronco
-
noun,
any grunt of the genus Haemulon, especially H. parrai, the sailor's-choice, of West Indian waters.
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- RECON
-
noun,
reconnaissance.
- scrip
-
noun,
a receipt, certificate, list, or similar brief piece of writing.
- piton
-
noun,
a metal spike with an eye through which a rope may be passed.
- resp.
-
- scree
-
noun,
a steep mass of detritus on the side of a mountain.
- opto-
-
- ripen
-
verb (used with or without object),
to make or become ripe.
- Scot.
-
- Pines
-
noun,
Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- Price
-
noun,
the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- pret.
-
- Pinto
-
noun,
Western U.S. a pinto horse.
- Orion
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a giant hunter who pursued the Pleiades, was eventually slain by Artemis, and was then placed in the sky as a constellation.
- rooti
-
noun,
rooty2 .
- reni-
-
- ornes
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- ornis
-
noun,
an avifauna.
- pions
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- pirns
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Orson
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old French word meaning “bearlike.”.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- Roost
-
noun,
a perch upon which birds or fowls rest at night.
- Pres.
-
- rect.
-
- Orton
-
noun,
Joe (John Kingsley Orton) 1933–67, English playwright.
- recpt
-
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- pisco
-
noun,
a brandy made in the district near Pisco, a seaport in Peru.
- print
-
noun,
the state of being printed.
- piece
-
noun,
a separate or limited portion or quantity of something:
- sect.
-
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- preen
-
noun,
a pin or brooch.
- Ponce
-
noun,
a pimp.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- post-
-
- rosin
-
noun,
Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
- scent
-
noun,
a distinctive odor, especially when agreeable:
- Prot.
-
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- petri
-
- petr-
-
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- peons
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- scene
-
noun,
the place where some action or event occurs:
- poori
-
noun,
a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
- rcpt.
-
- rents
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- poons
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- Pinot
-
noun,
any of several varieties of purple or white vinifera grapes yielding a red or white wine, used especially in making burgundies and champagnes.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- peri-
-
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- rices
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Peron
-
noun,
Eva Duarte de [ee-vuh dwahr-tey duh;; Spanish e-vah dwahr-te th e] /ˈi və ˈdwɑr teɪ də;; Spanish ˈɛ vɑ ˈdwɑr tɛ ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1919–52, Argentine political figure (wife of Juan Perón).
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- pones
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- pert.
-
- rotos
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- repic
-
noun,
the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands before one's opponent scores a point.
- pros.
-
- penis
-
noun,
the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- scorn
-
noun,
open or unqualified contempt; disdain:
- picot
-
noun,
one of a number of ornamental loops in embroidery, or along the edge of lace, ribbon, etc.
- scope
-
noun,
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.:
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- scoot
-
noun,
a swift, darting movement or course.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- Pecos
-
noun,
a river flowing SE from N New Mexico through W Texas to the Rio Grande. 735 miles (1183 km) long.
- Posen
-
noun,
German name of Poznań.
- rept.
-
- poet.
-
- scoop
-
noun,
a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- Porto
-
noun,
Portuguese name of Oporto.
- proc.
-
- Recit
-
- Scone
-
noun,
a small, light, biscuitlike quick bread made of oatmeal, wheat flour, barley meal, or the like.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- pron.
-
- prone
-
noun,
a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- peens
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- scion
-
noun,
a descendant.
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Port.
-
- porns
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- pico-
-
- recip
-
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- Pence
-
noun,
a plural of penny; used in referring to a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves (often used in combination):
- Point
-
noun,
a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- pene-
-
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- optic
-
noun,
the eye.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- ecto-
-
- econ.
-
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- toner
-
noun,
a person or thing that tones.
- tones
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- tonic
-
noun,
a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
- tono-
-
- toons
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- croon
-
noun,
the act or sound of crooning.
- ento-
-
- crone
-
noun,
a withered, witchlike old woman.
- crit.
-
- CRISP
-
noun,
Chiefly British. potato chip.
- crips
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- crine
-
noun,
hair; head of hair.
- cries
-
noun,
the act or sound of crying; any loud utterance or exclamation; a shout, scream, or wail.
- Crete
-
noun,
Formerly Candia. a Greek island in the Mediterranean, SE of mainland Greece. 3235 sq. mi. (8380 sq. km). Capital: Canea.
- crest
-
noun,
the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- crept
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- crepe
-
noun,
a lightweight fabric of silk, cotton, or other fiber, with a finely crinkled or ridged surface.
- Creon
-
noun,
a king of Thebes, the brother of Jocasta and the uncle of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone.
- Crees
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- creep
-
noun,
an act or instance of creeping:
- Ensor
-
noun,
James, 1860–1949, Belgian painter.
- terns
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- Stoic
-
noun,
a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy.
- Stone
-
noun,
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stoop
-
noun,
the act or an instance of stooping.
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- estoc
-
noun,
a thrusting sword of the 13th–17th centuries having a long, narrow blade of rectangular section.
- Ester
-
noun,
a compound produced by the reaction between an acid and an alcohol with the elimination of a molecule of water, as ethyl acetate, C 4 H 8 O 2 , or dimethyl sulfate, C 2 H 6 SO 4 .
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- Espoo
-
noun,
a city in S Finland, W of Helsinki.
- ESPEC
-
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- Ernst
-
noun,
Max [maks;; German mahks] /mæks;; German mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1891–1976, German painter, in the U.S. 1941–49, in France 1949–76.
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- teno-
-
- tenor
-
noun,
the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
- erect
-
adjective,
upright in position or posture:
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Tepic
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Nayarit, W central Mexico.
- Epist
-
- Episc
-
- Epis.
-
- terce
-
noun,
tierce (def 3).
- eosin
-
noun,
Also called bromeosin, tetrabromofluorescein. a red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 8 Br 4 O 5 , derived from fluorescein by bromination: used chiefly as an acid dye for dyeing silk a rose red color and as a histological stain.
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- topic
-
noun,
a subject of conversation or discussion:
- topo-
-
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- ceros
-
noun,
a large Atlantic and Gulf Coast mackerel game fish, Scomberomorus regalis.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- cites
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- trice
-
noun,
a very short time; an instant:
- cires
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- cions
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- cines
-
noun,
a film; motion picture.
- cine-
-
- cetin
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble fat, C 32 H 64 O 2 , obtained from spermaceti by extraction with ether: used chiefly as an emulsive agent in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics and as a base in the manufacture of candles and soaps.
- cetes
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- Cesti
-
noun,
Marcantonio [mahr-kahn-taw-nyaw] /ˌmɑr kɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1623–69, Italian composer.
- cert.
-
- cero-
-
- coirs
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- Ceres
-
noun,
a pre-Roman goddess of agriculture under whose name the Romans adopted the worship of the Greek goddess Demeter.
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- cepes
-
noun,
cep.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- cents
-
noun,
a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
- CENTO
-
noun,
a piece of writing, especially a poem, composed wholly of quotations from the works of other authors.
- cent.
-
- cense
-
verb (used with object),
to burn incense near or in front of; perfume with incense.
- Cenis
-
noun,
Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6834 feet (2083 meters) high.
- trone
-
noun,
a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.
- troop
-
noun,
an assemblage of persons or things; company; band.
- trop-
-
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- 30-30
-
- coins
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- torso
-
noun,
the trunk of the human body.
- topos
-
noun,
a convention or motif, especially in a literary work; a rhetorical convention.
- copr-
-
- cotes
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- torcs
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- coset
-
noun,
a subset of a group, formed by the consistent operation of a given element of the group on the left or right of all the elements of a subgroup of the group.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- Corti
-
noun,
Alfonso [al-fon-soh;; Italian ahl-fawn-saw] /ælˈfɒn soʊ;; Italian ɑlˈfɔn sɔ/ (Show IPA), 1822–76, Italian anatomist.
- Corse
-
noun,
corpse.
- corps
-
noun,
Military.
a military organization consisting of officers and enlisted personnel or of officers alone:
a military unit of ground combat forces consisting of two or more divisions and other troops.
- corpn
-
- corp.
-
- Corot
-
noun,
Jean Baptiste Camille [zhahn ba-teest ka-mee-yuh] /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1796–1875, French painter.
- corns
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- toric
-
adjective,
noting or pertaining to a lens with a surface forming a portion of a torus, used for eyeglasses and contact lenses that correct astigmatism.
- cores
-
- copse
-
noun,
a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
- copes
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- Cons.
-
- coper
-
noun,
a horse dealer.
- copen
-
noun,
Also called copen blue. a medium blue color.
- toros
-
noun,
a bull.
- coots
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- coopt
-
verb (used with object),
to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- co-op
-
noun,
a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc.
- coop.
-
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- cooee
-
noun,
a prolonged, shrill, clear call or cry used as a signal by Australian Aborigines and adopted by the settlers in the country.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- conto
-
noun,
a money of account of Portugal and Cape Verde, equal to 1000 escudos.
- Conte
-
noun,
count2 .
- cont.
-
- Const
-
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- Nepos
-
noun,
Cornelius, 99?–24? b.c, Roman biographer and historian.
- Neper
-
noun,
the unit used to express the ratio of two amplitudes as a natural logarithm: equal to 8.68 dB. Abbreviation: Np.
- sito-
-
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- neeps
-
noun,
a turnip.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- spent
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- spice
-
noun,
any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
- spine
-
noun,
the spinal or vertebral column; backbone.
- spect
-
noun,
single photon emission computed tomography: a technique for measuring brain function similar to PET.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- octo-
-
- Sino-
-
- since
-
adverb,
from then till now (often preceded by ever):
- onces
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- onco-
-
- seti-
-
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- spec.
-
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- snoop
-
noun,
an act or instance of snooping.
- noso-
-
- snore
-
noun,
the act, instance, or sound of snoring.
- Norse
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) the Norwegians, especially the ancient Norwegians.
- Norco
-
noun,
a town in S California.
- notes
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- sonic
-
adjective,
of or relating to sound.
- noto-
-
- noose
-
noun,
a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled.
- noise
-
noun,
sound, especially of a loud, harsh, or confused kind:
- snoot
-
noun,
Slang. the nose.
- noct-
-
- score
-
noun,
the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- sopor
-
noun,
Pathology. a deep, unnatural sleep; lethargy.
- snipe
-
noun,
any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (Capella) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago (common snipe) of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- nitr-
-
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- Niort
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Deux-Sèvres, in W France.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- niece
-
noun,
a daughter of a person's brother or sister.
- spoon
-
noun,
a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- Seton
-
noun,
a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- Spoor
-
noun,
a track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- Seric
-
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- Sept.
-
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- intr.
-
- opens
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- inst.
-
- OPers
-
- insp.
-
- insep
-
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- opine
-
verb (used with or without object),
to hold or express an opinion.
- step-
-
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- senor
-
noun,
a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. Abbreviation: Sr.
- inept
-
adjective,
without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit:
- incr.
-
- incor
-
- ster.
-
- opsin
-
noun,
any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- icons
-
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- snort
-
noun,
the act or sound of snorting.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- onto-
-
- spor-
-
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- onset
-
noun,
a beginning or start:
- Irons
-
noun,
Jeremy (John) born 1948, English actor.
- irone
-
noun,
a colorless liquid of isomeric, unsaturated ketones, C 14 H 22 O, obtained from orris root: used in perfumery for its odor of violets.
- sero-
-
- ontic
-
adjective,
possessing the character of real rather than phenomenal existence; noumenal.
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- ices
-
noun,
the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- Rep.
-
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- toro
-
noun,
a bull.
- scop
-
noun,
an Old English bard or poet.
- sice
-
noun,
syce.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- Reno
-
noun,
Informal. a renovation, as of a building or room.
- Tree
-
noun,
a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
- rent
-
noun,
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Sion
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Valais, in SW Switzerland.
- sepn
-
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- tron
-
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- tri-
-
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- sec.
-
- snip
-
noun,
the act of snipping, as with scissors.
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- scr.
-
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- Root
-
noun,
a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- torn
-
noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- Rice
-
noun,
the starchy seeds or grain of an annual marsh grass, Oryza sativa, cultivated in warm climates and used for food.
- Rico
-
noun,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act: a U.S. law, enacted in 1970, allowing victims of organized crime to sue those responsible for punitive damages.
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- tern
-
noun,
any of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, especially those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- ROTC
-
noun,
a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. Abbreviation: ROTC, R.O.T.C.
- ter.
-
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- Ste.
-
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- ten.
-
- rets
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- Tees
-
noun,
a river in N England, flowing E along the boundary between Durham and Yorkshire to the North Sea. 70 miles (113 km) long.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- str.
-
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RISC
-
noun,
reduced instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively small number of instructions, which it can execute very rapidly.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- rit.
-
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rocs
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- 'roo
-
noun,
kangaroo.
- tics
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- snot
-
noun,
Vulgar. mucus from the nose.
- rpt.
-
- sone
-
noun,
a unit for measuring the loudness of sound, equal to the loudness of a sound that, in the judgment of a group of listeners, is equal to that of a 1000-cycle-per-second reference sound having an intensity of 40 decibels.
- Soni
-
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- soon
-
Idioms,
sooner or later, eventually:
- Soot
-
noun,
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal, wood, oil, etc., rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke: also conveyed in the atmosphere to other locations.
- torc
-
noun,
torque (def 4).
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- sci.
-
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- roto
-
noun,
rotogravure.
- top-
-
- toon
-
noun,
an Asian tree, Cedrela toona, of the mahogany family, yielding an aromatic red wood used for furniture, carving, etc.
- spic
-
noun,
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Spanish-American person.
- Toni
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Antoinette or Antonia.
- spin
-
noun,
the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- tone
-
noun,
any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.:
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tion
-
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- 1080
-
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- eso-
-
- Otoe
-
noun,
Oto.
- oto-
-
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- crop
-
noun,
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered:
- otic
-
adjective,
of or relating to the ear; auricular.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- neep
-
noun,
a turnip.
- neo-
-
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- Cres
-
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- Nero
-
noun,
(Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (“Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus”) a.d. 37–68, emperor of Rome 54–68, known for his cruelty and depravity.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- oro-
-
- Orne
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2372 sq. mi. (6145 sq. km). Capital: Alençon.
- nest
-
noun,
a pocketlike, usually more or less circular structure of twigs, grass, mud, etc., formed by a bird, often high in a tree, as a place in which to lay and incubate its eggs and rear its young; any protected place used by a bird for these purposes.
- orcs
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- ctr.
-
- crip
-
noun,
a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs.
- Cree
-
noun,
a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana.
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- Pecs
-
noun,
a city in SW Hungary.
- per.
-
- peon
-
noun,
(in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
- nos-
-
- pens
-
noun,
any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
- Pen.
-
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peen
-
noun,
a wedgelike, spherical, or other striking end of a hammer head opposite the face.
- Cori
-
noun,
Carl Ferdinand, 1896–1984, and his wife, Gerty Theresa, 1896–1957, U.S. biochemists, born in Austria-Hungary: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947.
- pct.
-
- esp.
-
- CORN
-
noun,
Also called Indian corn; especially technical and British, maize. a tall cereal plant, Zea mays, cultivated in many varieties, having a jointed, solid stem and bearing the grain, seeds, or kernels on large ears.
- Cort
-
- etc.
-
- cose
-
verb (used without object),
coze.
- Cost
-
noun,
the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything:
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- est.
-
- Cote
-
noun,
a shelter, coop, or small shed for sheep, pigs, pigeons, etc.
- NCTE
-
- cts.
-
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Copt
-
noun,
a member of the Coptic Church.
- Nor.
-
- OEEC
-
- Oct.
-
- noir
-
adjective,
black; noting the black numbers in roulette.
- eons
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- nope
-
adverb,
no1 (def 1).
- epi-
-
- epic
-
noun,
an epic poem.
- epit
-
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- noes
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- nori
-
noun,
a seaweed having a mildly sweet, salty taste, usually dried, used in Japanese cookery mainly as a wrap for sushi.
- Eric
-
noun,
Eric the Red.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- nots
-
noun,
a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
- note
-
noun,
a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
- not-
-
- nose
-
noun,
the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- Ens.
-
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- NICE
-
noun,
a port in and the capital of Alpes-Maritimes, in SE France, on the Mediterranean: resort.
- OOPS
-
interjection,
(used to express mild dismay, chagrin, surprise, etc., as at one's own mistake, a clumsy act, or social blunder.)
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPer
-
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- open
-
noun,
an open or clear space.
- OPEC
-
noun,
an organization founded in 1960 of nations that export large amounts of petroleum: formed to establish oil-exporting policies and set prices.
- eco-
-
- ect-
-
- Oost
-
noun,
Jacob van [yah-kawp vahn] /ˈyɑ kɔp vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1600?–71, and his son, Jacob van, 1639?–1713, Flemish painters.
- o-os
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- nips
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- Enos
-
noun,
the son of Seth. Gen. 5:6.
- EEOC
-
- Ont.
-
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- once
-
noun,
a single occasion; one time only:
- enc.
-
- ence
-
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Cor.
-
- Pent
-
noun,
penthouse (def 4).
- Cope
-
noun,
a long mantle, especially of silk, worn by ecclesiastics over the alb or surplice in processions and on other occasions.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- pre-
-
- ceps
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- pot.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- pos.
-
- porn
-
noun,
Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively):
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- CerE
-
noun,
a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, especially a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
- CERN
-
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- poor
-
noun,
(used with a plural verb) poor persons collectively (usually preceded by the):
- poon
-
noun,
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, that yield a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.
- pons
-
noun,
Also called pons Varolii. a band of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the lobes of the midbrain, medulla, and cerebrum.
- cet-
-
- pone
-
noun,
Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- etic
-
adjective,
pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
- Ceto
-
- poco
-
adverb,
somewhat; rather:
- cion
-
noun,
scion (def 2).
- prec
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- iso-
-
- Ire.
-
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- ions
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- recs
-
noun,
recreation.
- into
-
adjective,
Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f (x) = x 2 for every integer.
- int.
-
- ins.
-
- inro
-
noun,
a small lacquer box with compartments for medicines, cosmetics, etc., worn on the waist sash of the traditional Japanese costume.
- Inc.
-
- cees
-
noun,
the letter C.
- prin
-
- cen.
-
- pts.
-
- cene
-
- iron
-
noun,
Chemistry. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely known in a pure condition, but much used in its crude or impure carbon-containing forms for making tools, implements, machinery, etc. Symbol: Fe; atomic weight: 55.847; atomic number: 26; specific gravity: 7.86 at 20°C.
Compare cast iron, pig iron, steel, wrought iron.
- psec
-
- Ice.
-
- prs.
-
- pro-
-
- cepe
-
noun,
cep.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- Cete
-
noun,
a number of badgers together.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- pice
-
noun,
a former bronze coin of British India, one quarter of an anna.
Compare pie5 .
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- PETN
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, explosive solid, C 5 H 8 N 4 O 12 , used chiefly as a high explosive and as a vasodilator in treating angina pectoris.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Pet.
-
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- Pers
-
- Pict
-
noun,
a member of an ancient people of uncertain origin who inhabited parts of northern Britain, fought against the Romans, and in the 9th century a.d. united with the Scots.
- Eton
-
noun,
a town in Berkshire, in S England, on the Thames River, W of London: the site of Eton College.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- Con.
-
- cone
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
- coon
-
noun,
raccoon.
- Coos
-
noun,
a language of a group of American Indians indigenous to the coast of Oregon.
- coot
-
noun,
any aquatic bird of the genus Fulica, as F. americana, of North America, and F. atra, of the Old World, characterized by lobate toes and short wings and tail.
- PICS
-
noun,
a movie.
- coir
-
noun,
the prepared fiber of the husk of the coconut fruit, used in making rope, matting, etc.
- coin
-
noun,
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- cir.
-
- cist
-
noun,
a box or chest, especially for sacred utensils.
- pion
-
noun,
the first meson to be discovered: it has spin 0 and may be positively or negatively charged or neutral; charged pions decay into a muon and a neutrino or antineutrino. Symbol: π.
- cite
-
noun,
citation (defs 7, 8).
- pint
-
noun,
a liquid and also dry measure of capacity, equal to one half of a liquid and dry quart respectively, approximately 35 cubic inches (0.473 liter). Abbreviation: pt, pt.
- PINE
-
noun,
any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, having long, needle-shaped leaves, certain species of which yield timber, turpentine, tar, pitch, etc.
Compare pine family.
- cis-
-
- cire
-
noun,
a brilliant, highly glazed surface produced on fabrics by subjecting them to a wax, heat, and calendering treatment.
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- cit.
-
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- pirn
-
noun,
a weaver's bobbin, spool, or reel.
- ETO
-
- IOC
-
- ion
-
noun,
an electrically charged atom or group of atoms formed by the loss or gain of one or more electrons, as a cation (positive ion) which is created by electron loss and is attracted to the cathode in electrolysis, or as an anion (negative ion) which is created by an electron gain and is attracted to the anode. The valence of an ion is equal to the number of electrons lost or gained and is indicated by a plus sign for cations and a minus sign for anions, thus: Na + , Cl−, Ca ++ , S = .
- ine
-
- io-
-
- in.
-
- ERP
-
- ETR
-
- Esc
-
- TCS
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ier
-
- ics
-
- ETS
-
- ERT
-
- ESR
-
- STP
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- STI
-
- TEC
-
noun,
detective.
- ese
-
- CRT
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- CIE
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- COT
-
noun,
a light portable bed, especially one of canvas on a folding frame.
- COS
-
noun,
romaine.
- COP
-
noun,
a police officer.
- COO
-
noun,
a cooing sound.
- TPI
-
- TPN
-
- Tpr
-
- tr.
-
- CNS
-
- CNO
-
- CIP
-
- Tro
-
- CPO
-
- cep
-
noun,
an edible mushroom, Boletus edulis, that grows wild under pine or other evergreen trees: prized for its flavor.
- CEO
-
- cee
-
noun,
the letter C.
- ct.
-
- cs.
-
- cr.
-
- cp.
-
- Co.
-
- CIO
-
noun,
a federation of affiliated industrial labor unions, founded 1935 within the American Federation of Labor but independent of it 1938–55. Abbreviation: C.I.O., CIO.
- trp
-
- TSE
-
- TSI
-
- TSP
-
- CPI
-
- CPR
-
- EPT
-
- EEO
-
- EPS
-
- Ep.
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- eon
-
noun,
an indefinitely long period of time; age.
- EOE
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- TIC
-
noun,
Pathology.
a sudden, spasmodic, painless, involuntary muscular contraction, as of the face.
tic douloureux.
- ene
-
- en-
-
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- EIS
-
- eir
-
- EEC
-
- CPS
-
- ec-
-
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- eo-
-
- ton
-
noun,
a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
- ctn
-
plural,
carton.
- cte
-
- too
-
Idioms,
only too. only (def 10).
- CST
-
- CSR
-
- CSO
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- CRS
-
- CRP
-
- ior
-
- NIC
-
noun,
a newly industrialized/industrializing country:
- IOT
-
- pt.
-
- OTS
-
- pc.
-
- SCP
-
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- Pr.
-
- prn
-
- Ps.
-
- PTO
-
- ote
-
- PCI
-
- PCS
-
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- sc.
-
- SRO
-
- Sp.
-
- So.
-
- se-
-
- ot-
-
- rte
-
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- oon
-
- SER
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- OOT
-
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- St.
-
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- OSP
-
- orc
-
noun,
any of several cetaceans, as a grampus.
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- ose
-
- OSO
-
- RTS
-
- rt.
-
- oo-
-
- RCP
-
- ret
-
verb (used with object),
to soak in water or expose to moisture, as flax or hemp, to facilitate the removal of the fiber from the woody tissue by partial rotting.
- PRC
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- PSC
-
- PSE
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- RCS
-
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- Re.
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- RPS
-
- RCN
-
- RCT
-
- REC
-
noun,
recreation.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- POR
-
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- RSE
-
- PIN
-
noun,
a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
- Rs.
-
- RPO
-
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- PIC
-
noun,
a movie.
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- ROP
-
- PIO
-
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- ROI
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- ROC
-
noun,
a bird of enormous size and strength.
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- POC
-
- o-o
-
noun,
any of several species of Hawaiian honey eaters of the genus Moho, especially the extinct M. nobilis, of the island of Hawaii, that had black plumage and two tufts of yellow plumes used to make ceremonial robes for the Hawaiian kings.
- TSR
-
noun,
a computer program with any of several ancillary functions, usually held resident in RAM for instant activation while one is using another program.
- ons
-
- IRS
-
- Npt
-
- NPR
-
- SOC
-
noun,
sociology or a class or course in sociology.
- Son
-
noun,
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
- NOP
-
- Soo
-
noun,
the, Canadian. Sault Ste. Marie.
- Noe
-
noun,
Noah (def 1).
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- NOC
-
- IRC
-
- IRO
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- ONR
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- SPR
-
- Nip
-
noun,
an act of nipping; a pinch or small bite:
- ise
-
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- ISR
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- NES
-
- NEP
-
noun,
New Economic Policy.
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEC
-
- ne-
-
- ist
-
- NCO
-
- ITC
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- nr.
-
- NRC
-
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- ONI
-
- one
-
noun,
the first and lowest whole number, being a cardinal number; unity.
- OIt
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- SIC
-
adverb,
so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: (sic).
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- OIr
-
- oic
-
- spt
-
- IPO
-
- OEO
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- OCS
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- NSC
-
- Ir.
-
- IPS
-
- ipr
-
- Oc.
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- op.
-
- OTC
-
- OCR
-
- ite
-
- RN
-
- IP
-
- CE
-
- RI
-
- R.
-
- ic
-
- RC
-
- i.
-
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- TC
-
- N.
-
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- TN
-
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- EI
-
- ee
-
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- O.
-
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- SN
-
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- NC
-
- No
-
noun,
an utterance of the word “no.”.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- S.
-
- T1
-
- t.
-
- TP
-
- RP
-
- NP
-
- NI
-
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- RO
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).